[givemeethekeys]

Here are a few jobs that I'm aware of, which are already well on their way out:

- Language translators.

- Video annotation, summary, transcription.

- Voiceover artists.

- Graphic designers.

- Warehouse inventory work.

- Personal tutors.

- Junior software engineers.

There will still be openings for these roles in the future, just as there are still openings for Personal Assistants (secretaries, which were once as abundant as teachers and truck drivers), and maybe even the occasional Draftsman.

[bradknowles]

For all of these jobs, AI systems may be able to solve the easy 80% of the lowest level tasks, they can't solve the hard 20%, and that's where humans will prevail. But AI plus humans will do even better.

I think what's going to happen is that AI will enable these kinds of jobs to be done much more often and in many more situations where they could not be feasibly be performed before, and the actual human job losses will be minimal in these areas.

At least for the near future, and it's hard to predict what may happen ten or twenty years from now.

[alexwhb]

So true. And when autonomous driving finally get to the safety levels where society accepts it… that will be a shocking number of jobs taken. Also Amazon is going to start selling their self checkout technology to stores… so most cashiers will definitely be out of work in the next decade if not sooner.

[bradknowles]

What we know of the current Amazon technology is bad enough that Amazon keeps closing stores. It's just not profitable enough to keep them open.

Now, maybe what they're thinking is that these stores were just a training exercise and known to be unprofitable from Day One, and now those training exercises are over so they can start shutting them down. Dunno -- I have no inside information on this.

But I wouldn't be looking to Amazon to solve all these problems for all the retailers. At least, not until they can come out with better technology.

[alexwhb]

Fair point, but then again… self checkout sucks!! And it’s everywhere. point being maybe it doesn’t have to be very good if it saves companies money. I hope that I’m wrong, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised

[bradknowles]

Self checkout as we know it today sucks. Imagine if you could do it based on RFID tags and just walk past with everything still in your cart. Of course, you'd have to make sure that you don't get double billed for anything, and you don't get billed for anything that someone else has nearby.

But if you got properly billed for only the things in your own cart, and that RFID scanning process was quick and easy, then I'm not sure it would suck so bad.

[alexwhb]

Totally agree. I’d actually prefer this type of system if it’s in fact faster than checkout with a cashier. Especially now that it seems many markets have dramatically cut down on staff and it can take shocking amounts of time to checkout.

[logiduck]

It seems like personal tutors will actually be in higher demand if AI learning takes over. I mean kids have had an ever increasing array of ways to learn and supplement materials over the past 20-30 years and if anything education has been getting worse in recent years with many benchmarks for education reaching decades low levels.